Mindoro sale marked by wartime bonds and notes
The state war finance committee announced a Dec 80 sale of EB F and G bonds and series C tax notes. Washington reports wounded soldiers Pfe Walter P Herr Fontanelle and Sgt Robert E Reichardt. Ames notes Rev Fred A Riggs dies after heart attack. Canella case goes to jury in Los Angeles. Gas incident rescues in Chicago. Iowa judges study divorce laws.
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State War Finance Committee
Washington, D. C
War Department
Pfe
Walter P. Herr
Fontanelle
Robert E. Reichardt
A. B
Dizs Ames
Fred A. Riggs
Iowa
State Board of Administration of
United Brethren Churches
Mr. Riggs
Brethren Church
Canella
Los Angeles
Col
Joseph Canella
Burlington
Santa Ana Army Air Base
Des Moines
Norman RB. Hayes
Knoxville
Iowa District Judges Association
James P. Gaffney
Dame City
Aces
Yeah
Marc
Kantas
F. H. Desney
Carolsn S
Edwin C. Newell
Ington
War Production Board Tightens Civilian Demand Controls
The War Production Board signs new limits restricting civilian use of key goods to prioritize war needs. A list of 17 civilian items faces tightened rules, with area committees checking manpower before any civilian production increase. Spot production remains limited amid labor scarcity and strategic needs.
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Intel
Samuel Anderson
WPB
Aeaelestic Peupenente
Filipino Guerrillas Help Secures Mindoro In LP War Drive
Allied forces push toward Manila aided by Filipino guerrillas as Mindoro is secured with three beachheads. MacArthur proclaims a cut of the archipelago opening sea and air routes to the China coast. Leyte and Panay fast moved with guerrilla support and airfield seizures across Cebu Negros and Panay.
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Associated Press
Manila
Mindoro
Douglas MacArthur
Wesr
Philippine Archipelago
China
ViucArthur
Leyte
Panay
Negros
Cebu
Covel
Dean
Sre
Wendell W. Fertig
Batsan
Mindanao
Charles Cushing
Layte
Imperial Japanese
San Jose
Sulu Sea
Lusom Island
Mindoco
Marlin Spencer
al Copking
77Th
Repor
Ormoc
Elmont Waite
Fire destroys building at Po Processing in Red Oak
In Red Oak Iowa a fire and internal explosion at Po Processing damaged machinery and destroyed a building. Firm manager Fred Lischer estimates losses around $20000 and reports night watchman Grover Meek found the blaze as firefighters arrived. Lischer believes salvage may be possible for the machinery.
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Red Oak
Po Processing Company
Fred Lischer
Grover Meek
Lischer
Weather Brief: Partly Cloudy Tonight and Sunday Snow
Partly cloudy tonight with a chance of light snow on Sunday. Mostly cloudy conditions expected Sunday with occasional light snow, turning somewhat warmer in the east tonight and colder by late Sunday.
U S Seventh Army Advances in Four Pronged German Invasion
A wartime dispatch reports the U S Seventh Army pushing into Germany from the French border near Lauterbourg and along a 17 mile front west of the Roer river. American units clash with German forces near Dillingen Ensdorf and Saarlautern while attempting to seize key bridges and loom toward Mannheim Ludwigshafen.
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Paris
U. S
Seventh Army
Germany
Lanterbourg
Rhine
Rt Line
Aymy-Tebenieg
Getainh
Roer’ River
Roer
First Army
Dillingen
Ensdorf
Saarlautern
Sarregue
Erching
Alexxander M. Patch
Reich
Lauterbourg
Mannheim
Ludwigshafen
45Th
108Rd
Abourg
Alsace
Duren
Cologne
Linnich
Bergstein
Ninth Air Force
Third Army
Saarbrucken
Homburg
Rotation club to hear Flying Fortress pilot at dinner
Capt Sterling McClusky son of Mr and Mrs H G McClusky 606 Palm street will speak at the Atlantic Rotarians Christmas dinner meeting at Hotel Whitney Tuesday evening A turkey dinner will be served and all club members urged to attend.
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Telk
Sterling McClusky
H. G. McClusky
Palm Street
Eighth Air Force Flying Fortress
Atlantic Rotarians
Hotel Whitney
Churchill Realistic Decision Shapes World Security
Senator Vandenberg urges plain speaking to Russia and Britain over postwar borders. The Big Three meet early 1945 as Churchill accepts Moscow’s claim on eastern Poland, signaling a shift while preserving the Atlantic Charter and aiming for a Polish government ready to negotiate with Moscow.
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Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
United States
Russia
Britain
Roosevelt
Stalin
Churchill
Moscow
London
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
America
Poland
East Prussia
Germany
FDR Signs Bill Freezing Social Security Taxes
Speaker Rayburn announced President Roosevelt signed legislation freezing social security payroll and paycheck taxes at 1 percent. The House cheered as members expected a veto and waited for a White House statement outlining the president’s views.
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Washington
Rayburn
House
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Pope Pius XII Set for Midnight Mass in St Peter’s
The Vatican announced that Pope Pius XII will celebrate Christmas Eve midnight Mass in St. Peter’s for the first time since his 1939 accession. The basilica will be open to the public and Rome streets will be lit for the occasion.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
St. Peter's
Vatican
St. Peter’s
Rome
Roosevelt Aide Ellen Roosevelt to Washington Stop
Col. Elliott Roosevelt and his bride Faye Emerson visited El Paso on private plane en route to Washington to meet the president and Mrs. Roosevelt.
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el Paso
Tex
Washington
Roosevelt
Col
Elliott Roosevelt
Faye Emerson
Reds Push Toward Vienna as Nazis Fall Back
Russian forces strike into western Slovakia for the first time, advancing from captured Spolysag toward Vienna while Ipolysag on the Budapest to Vienna highway is seized. German troops retreat east and north as Moscow asserts the push aims to break the Budapest stalemate amid rain.
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London
Slovakia
Spolysag
Sahy
Attem
Vienna
Ipolysag
Budapest
Bratislava-Vienna
Ipoly
Hungary
Eereg
Pest
Danube
Satoraljaujhely
Berlin
Debiga-Tarnow
Blovak
Krakow
Moscow
Ipoly River
Five Month Freeze on Worsteds in War Effort
Washington reports a five month freeze on worsted yarn to conserve supplies for military needs and essential civilian use. The order, effective December 16, aims to stabilize fiber distribution during wartime shortages and ensure critical textile production continues.
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Washington
Mrs E E Archer dies longtime Lewis resident
Mrs Larrie Archer 77 a Lewis vicinity resident since childhood died at Atlantic hospital after five months there. She was born in Pennsylvania came to Lewis with her parents George and Mary Krise. She married Elmer E Archer in 1890 he died years ago. She raised her niece Mrs Glenn Kennedy and lived with the Kennedys the last twenty years. Survived by five nieces and nephews and a sister Mrs W G Weaver of Exeter Neb. Funeral 2 30 Sunday at Lewis Congregational Church Rev Ralph Pinkham officiating. Interment Lewis cemetery. Remains from Taylor funeral home to church at noon Sunday.
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Larrie Archer
Lewis Vicinity
Atlantic Hospital
Archer
Pennsylvania
George
Mary Krise
Elmer E. Archer
Glenn Kennedy
Lewis
Communications firms add $17 180 to bond campaign
The A T and T company and the Northwestern Bell Telephone company boosted Cass county with $17 180 in the sixth war loan drive. The A T and T purchased 15000 in bonds and the Bell company invested 2180 in bonds during the current campaign.
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A. T. & T. Company
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Cass County
Bell Company
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